Bachelor and Master - same university

[Pats20]

Don't bankrupt yourself for a Master's degree.

I agree. On the other hand, a lot of well known schools offer Master's degrees online and are nowhere near as selective about who gets into them as they are at the undergraduate level. Getting the fastest, cheapest, alt-creditest, Big Threeest Bachelor's degree and topping it off with a Master's from a well known school can be a pretty good strategy, especially since at 36 credit hours a Master's degree is usually the least expensive degree to earn from any given institution.

Exactly. They’re are definitely worse things to spend a little  on than a masters degree. Sure if you can get a masters in a useful field for $5k go for it.  But $20-$30k for a useful skill set isn’t that unreasonable imo. . Considering masters degree holders on average earn $250 more a week than bachelors.